I can't believe that people still think that you need to keep late term abortion legal to save a mother's life, and that there are politicians ready and willing to proclaim and propagate this outright lie. Hillary Clinton, in the final Presidential Debate, threw this out there with millions of people watching. It was very irresponsible of her to do that, but then she is hand-in-glove with pro-abortion groups. She is not at all worried about informing or empowering women with facts! Of course, Planned Parenthood and the pro-abortion lobby are very generous to her Campaign...
The fact is that no doctor would perform an abortion to save the mother's life in any medical or other emergency. By the time he'd have finished the procedure and torn off his gloves, the mother would be quite dead upon the table. Abortions need time not available in emergencies.
If a doctor needs to end a pregnancy in the 3rd trimester, this can be done swiftly by Cesarean Section. It takes 2 minutes from incision to delivery of the baby. Before that, anesthesia has to be provided - and as in any Emergency Surgery, this takes no time at all.
If late in pregnancy the mother is diagnosed with cancer of the uterus, and a hysterectomy is warranted as soon as possible, you still don't have to do a late-term abortion. Uterus and live baby can be removed. The baby can be cared for in the NICU.
Thankfully, it's not an everyday occurrence in a Birth Center to have to rush a pregnant woman in labor to the OR to save her life; but an undiagnosed placenta 'praevia' (in the way of the birth canal) can be life-threatening when labor starts, or a skyrocketing blood pressure can lead the doctors to decide to end the pregnancy with a C. Section. It doesn't have to be an abortion; baby doesn't have to die, and abortion isn't the treatment for pre-eclampsia.
So Hillary Clinton is quite wrong to suggest that late-term abortions need to be legal to save mothers' lives. Late-term abortions are done for one reason only, to end babies lives. Often, the babies are disabled or sick, and this is why they are killed.
To expand a little on safety and emergency measures in pregnancy. Abortion clinics are not equipped to save mothers' lives if something goes wrong - it just doesn't work that way. They don't have the facilities to deal with massive hemorrhaging or cardiac arrest. In any emergency, an abortion clinic has to call 9-1-1. Any move to change the law to upgrade abortion facilities to include the equipment to save mothers' lives - by upgrading them to Surgery Centers for instance - has been resisted by the clinics themselves. Think Texas, where such a law was passed, and The Supreme Court struck it down. Don't expect an abortion clinic to save any patient's life! They don't want to; they have to spend too much money on equipment, and have properly qualified surgery staff on hand which they have to pay. They don't want to do it. For anesthesia they may use trained assistants, and some have been found using untrained or poorly trained assistants. This is because abortion clinics are not inspected often, for reasons entirely political. Dr. Gosnell's staff and facilities were dangerous and Dr. Gosnell was not an outlier.
No comments:
Post a Comment